It wasn’t long ago that the left-wing establishment was gleefully proclaiming the death knell for conservative America. Remember when The New York Times declared in 2012, “Demographic Shift Brings New Worry for Republicans”? Or when The Washington Post boldly asserted, “Republicans have a major demographic problem. And it’s only going to get worse”? The narrative was predictable: mass immigration plus mass amnesty equals a permanent Democrat majority.
But President Donald Trump shattered those predictions, and now Senator Eric Schmitt (R-MO) is explaining exactly how Trump stopped the left’s insidious plan for permanent political dominance.
In a recent interview on “The Signal Sitdown,” Schmitt emphasized a crucial point that every conservative instinctively knows, but many establishment Republicans were too timid to say: America is not merely “an idea” or an economic zone. America is a real nation, made up of real people with real communities and traditions worth defending.
“When Joe Biden was letting 15 million people in here illegally, people couldn’t understand how a president could allow that,” Schmitt said. “The answer is Biden bought into a worldview that America wasn’t unique—that it’s just some economic zone with an airport attached. You ship jobs overseas, you get cheap Chinese t-shirts back, and everything will magically turn out fine.”
Schmitt is right. The Democrats and their globalist allies have spent decades pushing a vision of America as nothing more than a global economic interchange, indifferent to the destruction of American jobs, communities, and national sovereignty.
Let’s be honest: Republicans of the post-Cold War era were complicit too, embracing trade deals that gutted American industry and hollowed out the heartland. They promised “creative destruction,” but as Schmitt pointed out, the creativity never materialized—only destruction, despair, and decline.
Trump saw clearly what the Beltway establishment refused to acknowledge: Americans are not disposable cogs in a globalist machine. “We’ve seen devastation in our communities,” Schmitt continued, “factories left desolate, replaced with despair and death.” Trump rejected this elitist betrayal and instead fought fiercely for the forgotten men and women of America.
From day one, Trump’s presidency has been about restoring the dignity of American workers and families. He put America first by confronting unfair trade practices, promoting manufacturing revival, securing our southern border, and standing firm against endless foreign wars. Trump recognized that unchecked mass migration wasn’t just a humanitarian concern—it was a calculated Democrat strategy designed to import new voters and cement their power indefinitely.
“The Left understood what they were playing at,” Schmitt explained. “They wanted permanent majority and total control. It’s critical we remember how close we came to losing America as we know it.”
Imagine for a moment what would happen if Biden, Harris, or another radical Democrat were in power right now. Schmitt paints a grim but realistic picture: “They’d eliminate the filibuster, pack the Supreme Court, add new states, grant mass amnesty, and flood our voter rolls with millions of new Democrat voters. We might never come back from that.”
Trump’s ascendancy broke the Democrats’ carefully crafted plan, and that’s precisely why they have attacked him relentlessly from the moment he descended the escalator at Trump Tower. He exposed their scheme and fought back with a tenacity unseen in modern American politics.
But the fight is far from over. As Schmitt reminds us, Republicans must not squander President Trump’s legacy. We can’t return to the globalist complacency of the past. We must continue to fight for the working class, insist on border security, demand fair trade deals, reform our education system, and end disastrous foreign wars.
“Work gives people meaning,” Schmitt emphasized. “We should be honoring the dignity of every individual—especially the hardworking American who wants to provide for his family without competing against cheap foreign labor.”
Trump understood this instinctively, and he reshaped the Republican Party around it. Now, it’s up to conservatives across America to ensure this America First vision endures. The Democrats’ plan for permanent power was stopped in its tracks—but the battle for America’s future is ongoing.
President Trump has given us a fighting chance. Let’s not waste it.
